(a non-profit collective promoting traditional & roots folk
music in London since 1973)
(of Sheeman,
Lotus & Son)
Saturday, April 6, 2024 – 7:30 pm
(Doors at 7:00 pm)
Chaucer’s Pub, 122 Carling Street, London
$25 Advance / $30 at the Door
Advance
tickets can be purchased online at
https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/46826/
A multi-instrumentalist and instrument maker, Teilhard Frost specializes in traditional Appalachian old-time music. He was raised on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, spending time with the elder fiddlers in the area. At the age of three he was given a jaw harp and harmonica by his father, and his mother gave him a fiddle and a record of Kentucky fiddle tunes. He has continued to play them all ever since. With a strong desire to play banjo but having no money to buy one, Teilhard set about making his own and Frost Gourd Banjos was born. He designs and hand crafts gourd and early era banjos, instruments which are sought out and played by celebrated artists such as Rhiannon Giddens, Daniel Lapp, Arnie Naiman, Lotus Wight, and Chris Coole.
Teilhard’s latest solo recording, As the Crow Flies, is a collection of traditional music found in the Appalachian highlands. The songs have strong ties to the British Isles while the fiddle tunes draw on ancient Scandinavian and northern Scottish modal settings and tunings, conjuring a feeling of mystery and drama.
Teilhard helped form Canadian bush swing band Flapjack in 1997, playing washboard, bones, and harmonica and jaw harp, playing mainly Canadian fiddle tune repertoire. During this time, he and bandmate/bass player Sam Allison became fast friends, playing the old-time music of Appalachia and the Mississippi Valley. When Flapjack disbanded, he and Allison formed their internationally successful group Sheesham, Lotus, and Son with Brian Sanderson on Sousaphone. Together, they have released seven albums as Sheesham, Lotus and Son, the Kings of Old Time!
With music as his ambassador, Teilhard has toured throughout North America and Europe for over twenty years. His music has taken him as far away as Africa, India and Mongolia, studying and teaching. He lives on Wolfe Island in the St. Lawrence River with his partner and their two daughters.
For Information call 519-319-5847 or e-mail folk@iandavies.com
Sunday, April 21, 2024 – 7:30 pm
(Doors at 7:00 pm)
Chaucer’s Pub, 122 Carling Street, London
$25 Advance / $30 at the Door
Advance
tickets can be purchased online at
https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/46828/
Joe Crookston is a force of nature on stage. He is in his power AND he communes with his audience and welcomes them into the magic. From touring with Gordon Lightfoot, headlining major US festivals, receiving Folk Alliance International “Album of the Year,” releasing 15 new recordings on Nine Becomes One (2023) to being named Folk Alliance International Artist-in-Residence, Joe is on fire! He’s played with Suzanne Vega, Dar Williams, David Francey, John McCutcheon, John Gorka, Judy Collins and 100’s more. He’ll surprise you. He awakens the cynics. He’s plumbing for lyrical gold. His rhythm is infectious. In concert, he is funny as hell one moment and transcendent the next.
HE BELIEVES IN STORIES: Come to a show. Visual, artful and surprising. Brooklyn in July, Oklahoma towns, rattlesnake tails, turbary thieves, meter maids and drunk roosters. At the end of the night, you’ll leave inspired. “The Long Note” is a phrase in Irish culture. “The Long Note” is that place of resonance and transcendence where the music, the voices, the instruments, and the community ALL come together and unite.
THERE IS A LONG NOTE & JOE IS REACHING FOR IT: Whether he’s weaving through lap slide songs or fiddling an American Southern tune, he’ll draw you in. It happens every time. Watch a YouTube video…it’s fine, but it’s not the same. You gotta come to a show. With unwavering courage to be himself, he is literate, poignant and funny as hell.
For Information call 519-319-5847 or e-mail folk@iandavies.com
with Paul Mills
Sunday, April 28, 2024 – 7:30 pm
(Doors at 7:00 pm)
Chaucer’s Pub, 122 Carling Street, London
$25 Advance / $30 at the Door
Advance
tickets can be purchased online at
https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/46824/
"Two voices in perfect harmony"
- that's how one music writer described the Montreal-based duo of Bill
Garrett and Sue Lothrop. That rich vocal blend is the hallmark of a
folk-music partnership that celebrates fine songwriting and a shared history
growing up in rural Quebec. Bill and Sue began their musical relationship after
recording Bill's solo CD, Seems To Me, in 1999. The vocal magic and the
distinctive musical approach that resulted have continued to evolve and these
days, their tight harmonies, fine guitar-picking and tasteful repertoire are
winning over fans across the country.
Bill Garrett is a
musical triple threat: a Canadian folk legend who is also well known as a
producer and one of the founders of Toronto's Borealis Records. Well-known as a
solo artist, he was also a staple on CBC Radio for 18 years, co-hosting Sylvia
Tyson's folk program Touch the Earth and later producing The Entertainers and
Six Days on the Road with musician-host David Essig. Since leaving the CBC in
the mid-1990s, he has produced more than 65 folk, blues
and jazz recordings.
Sue Lothrop
started playing professionally in Montreal. She moved to the city from Quebec's
Eastern Townships, where she had played in college folk groups with friends
Allan Fraser and Brian Blain. Sue later went on to tour extensively throughout
Canada and the U.S. both as a solo artist and with folk/rock group Rings and
Things. Sue spent the better part of the 1980s and early 1990s raising her
daughter Corina. Today she splits her time between doing therapeutic music
animation for seniors and performing with Bill.
Joining Bill & Sue for this
concert is their old friend Paul Mills a.k.a
Curly Boy Stubbs. Paul is was awarded the Order of
Canada in 2018. He is a musician, musical arranger and record producer/engineer
and has been part of the Canadian folk music scene and recording industry for
close to fifty years. He has produced over two hundred albums working with
artists such as Stan Rogers, Sharon, Lois and Bram, and Ron Hynes. He is the
past President of Folk Music Ontario and has served on the Boards of Folk Music
Canada, the Canadian Folk Music Awards, and was Chair of the Home County Folk
League. He has performed in duos with his son Trevor, his friend Joanne
Crabtree, and most recently with another Canadian folk music legend David
Bradstreet.
For Information call 519-319-5847 or e-mail folk@iandavies.com
(from Hawaii)
Sunday, May 5, 2024 – 7:30 pm
(Doors at 7:00 pm)
Chaucer’s Pub, 122 Carling Street, London
$25 Advance / $30 at the Door
Advance
tickets can be purchased online at
https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/46848/
An undying sense of adventure has anchored Streetlight Cadence
since their humble beginnings as street performers in Honolulu. Their punkish
energy on acoustic instruments intertwines with intimate storytelling to create
a band that has scored numerous placements on Billboard’s Heatseekers Chart, two Nā
Hōkū Hanohano Awards for Alternative Album of the Year, and an
Emmy® nomination for their self-produced television series, “Will Play For
Food”.
Based in Hawaii, this highly entertaining power trio consists of Jon
Andrew Franklin (violin), Ben Chai (banjo), and Clara Stegall
(guitar), and their unparalleled artistic fervor delivers an experience that is
brighter than ever. Streetlight Cadence has been compared with the likes of The
Avett Brothers, The Lumineers, and Of Monsters and Men.
Awards + Placements
2019 Emmy® Nominee (SF/NorCal Chapter)
2018 Billboard Placement - Classical Crossovers
2017 Billboard Placement - Heatseekers
2014 + 2015 Nā Hōkū
Hanohano Award Winners
For Information call 519-319-5847 or e-mail folk@iandavies.com
Friday, May 24, 2024 – 7:30 pm *NEW DATE*
(Doors at 7:00 pm)
Chaucer’s Pub, 122 Carling Street, London
$25 Advance / $30 at the Door
Advance
tickets can be purchased online at
https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/46850/
Tom Lewis is an accomplished performer and composer, with decades of experience and accolades. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, grew up in Gloucester, England, and was a submariner in the Royal Navy for 24 years (1959-1983). He is renowned for composing 'The Last Shanty' (A Sailor Ain't A Sailor), ''Sailor's Prayer' (Send Down A Dove), 'Legend' (Marching Inland), plus many other contemporary songs of the sea that have become folk standards, sung by more than 40 groups around the world.
At the age of 80, Tom is still touring widely - whilst also utilising the boon that zoom can provide – even if it is a pale imitation of a hearty pub-sing, so he partakes in numerous musical sessions online, taking his brand of wry humour, his nautical knowledge, and his powerful voice - all of which he loves to share - to audiences everywhere.
One
reviewer wrote, “After 24 years at sea; Tom's
repertoire—from traditional shanties to songs fashioned out of his own
seafaring background—recruits his audience for a voyage by turns reflective,
dramatic and humorous; with songs that have become folk standards; known and
sung wherever great choruses ring out.”
Tom's recent double CD 'Demand Performance’ (released April 22, 2020) features one 'live' CD with seven extended tracks to compensate for the lack of genuine live performance; plus a second CD with eleven studio-recorded tracks. Downloads of all Tom's albums can be purchased from Bandcamp.
For Information call 519-319-5847 or e-mail folk@iandavies.com
The Marienbad
Restaurant is open for dinner on concert days.
Concert day diners
can reserve their seats in Chaucer’s prior to doors opening.
Make your reservation by
calling 519-679-9942
All concerts at begin at 7:30 pm and most are held at Chaucer's,
122 Carling Street, London, ON
(unless otherwise indicated)
Advance tickets can be purchased during the season at
Chaucer's/Marienbad Restaurant, Long & McQuade North (Fanshawe Park Rd W).
For
Information call 519-319-5847 or e-mail folk@iandavies.com
Special
Advance “5-for-4” Multi-Ticket is available for $100 only
at the Concerts
(pay
for 4 concerts and get the 5th one free)
We
continue to be a completely volunteer run organization. We thank you for your
support of live music and look forward to seeing you at the concerts. – Ian Davies, Artistic Director.
What’s
happened so far in the 2023-2024 Season
Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023 - Winter Wilson (from England)
Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023 - Friends
of Fiddler’s Green - SOLD OUT!
Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023 - Reynolds,
Robinson & Lodge
with
Cheryl Prashker (percussion) & Sarah Louise McGregor (fiddle)
Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023 - VINTA
(presented by TD Sunfest in cooperation with Cuckoo’s Nest Folk
Club)
Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023 - WINDBORNE – “Music of Midwinter” - SOLD OUT!
Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023 - David
Bradstreet with Carl Keesee - SOLD OUT!
Friday, Dec. 22, 2023 – Pub Caroling with
Paul Grambo, Steve Holowitz & John P. Allen
$275.50 was raised for the London Food
Bank – Thanks to all for coming!
Sunday, January 21, 2024 - James Gordon with Katherine Wheatley
Saturday, February 10, 2024 - Paul
Langille & Paul Sims
Blue Valentines #5 – “Love Overboard, Again!”
Sunday, February 18, 2024 – New Cumberland - SOLD OUT!
Thursday, February 22, 2024 – TALISK (Direct
from Scotland)
(presented by TD Sunfest in cooperation with Cuckoo’s Nest Folk
Club)
Saturday, February 24, 2024 – Bia Ferreira
(Direct from Brazil)
(presented by TD Sunfest in cooperation with Cuckoo’s Nest Folk
Club)
Sunday, March 10, 2024 – Anne
Lederman, Pat O’Gorman & Peter Jellard
Talamh
an Eisc (Land of Fish): Irish music in Canada
(last update March 13, 2024)
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